210 pages ; 22 cm

This book is the Dalai Lama's teachings on how to meditate. It is the most extensive explanation His Holiness has given on a classic meditation handbook by Kamalashila. Practice-oriented Westerners will find this favorite text of the Dalai Lama especially useful. In the Dalai Lama's own words, "This text can be like a key that opens the door to all other major Buddhist scriptures." Accordingly, His Holiness often teaches from it to diverse audiences throughout the world. (Back cover)

What is the mind? -- Training the mind -- Compassion -- Developing equanimity, the root of loving-kindness -- Identifying the nature of suffering -- Wisdom -- Common prerequisites for meditating on calm abiding and special insight -- The practice of calm abiding -- Actualizing special insight -- Unifying method and wisdom

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